The coating and treatment selector

Why

A coater's first question is which process a part should go through and what the specification should say.

How

Give it the substrate, the environment and the target; it returns the families, the designation, the route and the add-ons to raise.

What it returns

• The ranked process families, each with a sector typical salt spray reach for the coater to confirm.
• The designation, where one resolves: a full ISO 10683 code for zinc flake, built only from the published classes.
• The process route, barrel, rack or spray, with the reason.
• For fasteners, the add-on services to raise, and for every job the pricing drivers captured for the quote.

The salt spray classes are exactly the published set: 360, 500, 720, 1000 and 1500 hours to red rust. No designation is ever minted beyond the top class, and a reach that is a sector norm is labelled as an estimate.

What it matches

Your services, not your catalogue: coating is work done on the customer's parts. The recommended process is matched to the services set up in Servicing, and once the reader gives the batch weight, area or piece count a service prices on, your own rate card prices it. A figure the rate card needs and has no default for is asked for rather than guessed, and any default it assumes is shown.